How to Eat Carbs and Lose Weight

The three common carbohydrate rich foods carb lovers crave most are bread, chips and pasta.  You may crave one or all three carbs regardless of which you can now eat them without the guilt and still lose weight.  Carbs are a healthy addition to any diet and yet once we try to eliminate them we crave them more.  Why? Because our bodies need the nutrients commonly found in these carbohydrate rich foods.  Plus carbs give us a quick rush of energy.  The down side is the fall from the rise leaving us wanting more carbohydrate rich foods.  To much of a good thing is bad, it's true and yet many of us set a pattern or cycle depending on carbs for energy eating far more that we should making ourselves fat, over weight and tired.

It's most often the cheap commercial brands of potato chips and pasta we become addicted to. With a little creative know how you, me and every carb loving human on the planet can enjoy great tasting healthy carbs that won't increase our waste lines. 

If you like Chinese food you've no doubt eaten rice pasta.  It's delicious and nutritious without the bad white flour we know to pack on the pounds.  We don't think about eating rice pasta because we were raised on the simple starches as a child. Luckily we now have options, we've been over looking them but they're there.  Rice pasta now comes in every form you grew to love as a kid and it's delicious. The next time you're at the market, instead of reaching for the same ole pasta you always do, look for brown rice pasta.  It's the carbohydrate super pasta you can eat and lose weight. 

Chips

More than anything we chip lovers are addicted to the salty crunch of chips. We also love the flavorful intensity of chips. Chips waken the taste buds and shake things up a bit.  All the satisfaction of a chip can be found in lentil chips.  Lentils are packed with nutrition and flavor. They're a great source of dietary fiber, have less than 70% of the fat of potato chips. Lentil chips are celiac and vegetarian friendly.

Talk Flavor

These delicious little treats will allow you to munch guilt free and check out the variety of flavors they come in.

• Sea Salt
• Cucumber Dill
• Parmesan Garlic 
• Roasted Pepper
• Rosemary 
• Cracked Pepper and Sea Salt

You can in fact still lose weight while eating bread, chips and pasta. Yes it's true and yet there are good carbs that can both satisfy and support your weight loss efforts . The next food to consider is bread, sandwiches can be very healthy and yet the bread is often the ingredient making the sandwich fattening.  A german whole rye sourdough bread can take bread from the offenders spot into the weight loss winners circle.  This bread can be found at your local health food store as is called Volkornbrot.  This is a soft, chewy and delicious bread leaving any bread loving carb addict satisfied.  The fact its a sourdough bread adds to the beauty. Sourdough bread takes longer for the body to process and digest therefore requiring more calories to burn. It's filling giving you all the comfort of bread.  Switching to this bread alone, eating it instead of your usual commercial bread can add a 5 pound a year weight loss to your dieting efforts.  

There's no reason why you can't have your carbohydrates and eat them too. Enjoy, Katie